1887: Another assassination attempt succeeds in killing the Prince of Gywnedd.

1893: With the failure of the Irish Home Rule Bill, Rhisiart IV declares war on England, both countries mobilise their fleets, but no action by either side was taken with both sides standing down in early 1894. Bristol University founded.

1896: More political unrest, led by English agitators. First modern Olympiad.

20th Century

1902: Major political riots force the King to abandon Cwm Hyfryd Palace for the safety of Caerfilli Palace.

1903: Parliament reinstated and a new Parliament House built in Cardiff Civic Centre.

1904: New Welsh Constitution agreed.

1912: Start of organised road building in Wales.

1914: The Army and Navy increase in size. Further civil unrest with the Communist Party making its first appearance in Wales. Wales negates its treaty obligations and declares itself neutral as the 1st World War starts.

1917: Parliament attempts to impeach the King.

1918: Arrest of several members of both the Senedd and the Assembly on grounds of treason.

1938: Anti-German and Anti-King riots throughout Wales. Put down with the use of German troops. Hitler takes control of key airports

1939: World War Two starts. Maeslywydd Thomas (Field Marshal Thomas) dismissed as Head of the Welsh Armed Forces. Parliament removed from Cardiff to Machynlleth.

1940: The Government of Iorwerth Bycysten collapses. Maeslywydd Thomas declares a state of emergency, Iago declares Wales to be merged with Germany, with Hitler as the new Chancellor. Thomas retains control of the Armed Forces and defeats the Germans within Wales. Placing Iago under house arrest Thomas heads a new Welsh Government which sides with England against Hitler.

1941: The Navy takes part in the Battle of the Atlantic whilst the Welsh Air force begins bombing raids on Germany. American troops begin to be barracked within the Kingdom

1944: The Crown Prince dies during the push on Paris after successfully surviving the D-Day landings.

1945: With the end of the war the Communists in the south rise in revolt again.

1946: Democratic marches throughout Wales. Attempted Communist Coup.

1949: Communists take over half the seats in the American guided election of '49.

1950: Senedd reforms. Iago assassinated by poison. Communist Uprising. Declaration of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Wales. American troops help put down the uprising. Korean War starts. Welsh troops deploy as part of UN forces.

1953: Death of Maeslywydd Thomas. The only non-Royal to be buried with full State Honours and a place in the Royal Crypts in Strata Florida. Formal disestablishment of the Welsh Empire. Korean War ends. Welsh forces return home.

1964: Electoral reform brings the vote to a universal suffrage of all citizens 18 and over.

1966: Communist marches in Cardiff

1967: Wales joins the EEC. Welsh Army and Air Force personnel deploy to Vietnam.

1968: Communist Party is made legal again and in the '68 election becomes the official Opposition.

1969: Further reduction in the monarch's powers.

1970: Decimal currency introduced.

1973: With the oil crisis the Welsh economy crashes. The August election sees the Communists returned as the Government, but with only a small majority.

1975: The Communist Government declines Soviet help in establishing a Welsh Communist State

1978: Assassination of the Communist Chancellor, Marc Griffiths, by the CIA

1979: Massive electoral fraud sees the Communists removed from Government by the Welsh Democratic Party. (a CIA funded political party). The new government, however, orders the expulsion of all American troops from Wales.

1982: Wales sides with the Argentine Republic in the Falklands War.

1983: Llywelyn III becomes the first Welsh Monarch to swear to uphold the constitution.

1995: The Welsh Communist Party, now called the Social Democratic Party, wins the general election.